Review Summary

This group portrait of some of the last surviving traditional blues musicians of the south is also a feature-length promotion for Fat Possum records, the Oxford, Mississippi, label that has distributed albums by musicians like Junior Kimbrough, Cedell Davis and R. L. Burnside. The filmmakers wisely let the music — and the musicians — do the talking, and the result is a soulful and toe-tapping tribute to their persistence and creativity. — A. O. Scott